Not exact matches
In 2010, a team of anthropologists claimed that cutmarks on a pair of 3.4 - million - year - old animal bones found in an area of the Afar region known
as Dikika were made by
ancient stone -
tool butchery.
A long record of
ancient stone tools could tell us if the monkeys picked up
tool use in response to an environmental stress, such
as rapid sea level changes, for example.
The collection includes
stone tools and other artifacts,
as well
as fossilized bones of animals and
ancient hominins, including the Neandertal bones that formed part of the sample used in three recent studies of Neandertal DNA.
Students handle replicas of
ancient clay,
stone, and metal artifacts
as well
as archaeologists»
tools to explore the archaeological process and daily life within the context of
ancient civilizations.